The
good and eminent dancing must be the beautiful form. Or it is called the
grace dancing post. The dancer will move the body to be in line, consistent
and harmonious with whole part of body. Training how to move handsand
feet in thai dramatic art is called " nataya sab" ( dancing
words) are as the following:

1.
Head part Inclining
is to incline the head. It must be consistent with the shoulders and body
in bending line. If you incline on the left. Let your face turn
on the trifling right. If you incline to the right, let your face
turn to the trifling left.Lakgor
is to incline to the opposite side with the pressing shoulder. If
you incline on the left, press the right shoulder. If you incline on the
right, press the left shoulder. Open
the chin is to bend down your face. Open the end of your chin and
cast your eyes straight as high as your eyes level. Press
the chin refers not to do too much raising your face.

2.
Arm part

Wong
( circle)refers
to stretch out the hand tightly in all five fingers. But the thumb bends
a little back to the palm. Four fingers
are stretched back while the thumb is tucked in. To
set the beautiful circle ( wong) , we have to bend the wrist to the upper
arm as much as possible. Lay the arm be the beautiful curve with
a little bending the elbow. The circle ( wong ) can be divided into

Wongbon
: (Upper circle) It refers to lifting the
arm to the body side. Extend the elbow bending. Open the palm. Raise fingers
end upward. The end of fingers actor's circle will be on the above the
head. But the end of fingers' actress will be on the elbow tail level
and the circle will be narrower.

Wong
Klang : (Middle circle) It refers to the lifting
the bending arm and let the end of arm be high in the shoulder level.

Wong
Nga : (Front circle) It refers to lifting the
arm to the front. The actor's circle will be wider than the actress. The
end of fingers will be in the cheeks level. The circle's actress fingers
end will be in the mouth level.

Wong
Boa Ban : (Opening lotus circle) It is lifting
up the arm at the body's side. Let the elbow be high in the shoulder's level.
Bend the elbow to let the lower arm fold to the body and be in vertical
shape to the upper arm. Open palm up with the finger's end pointing to the
body's side. The actress ' circle will be narrower than the actor's.

Wong
Lang : (Lower circle) It is to set in the lowest
circle level by laying the arm down in the waist level. Let the hand be
at the belt's head. The elbow's actor will be far from the body.

3.
Hands Part
Open hand refers to closing of index, middle, ring and little fingers.
Let all of them tight. The thump spreads evading to the palm. Bend the
wrist to the back of the hand. But there is some post bending the wrist
to the palm such as pong na post ( face guarding post by putting one's
hand to one's ear).

Hand
gathering:
It refers to gathering of fingers by bringing the index and the thump
touch each other.
Let the end of the thump touch the first part index. Let the finger be
tightly.
The affecting of middle, ring and little will be far from each other.
Bend the wrist to the palm.
The hand gathering can be divided into 5 forms as the following:

Jeeb Close
the thumb and index fingers, other fingers stretch back and turn wrist
up.

Jeeb
Ngai : Open gathering
: it refers to the palm opening and let the end of fingers pointing up.
If it is on the belly level, it is called " jeep chai pok" (the
belly gathering) .

Jeeb
Kwam : Over turn gathering: It is to over turn
the palm and let the end of fingers pointing down. Bend the wrist back to
the arm.

Jeeb
Lang : Sending back gathering: It is to send
the arm back. Let the arm be tight. Turn the wrist by pointing up the fingers
end. Let the arm be tight , lifting up highly and send it back side.

Jeeb
Prok Nga : (
front circle gathering): The form is as the same as the front circle but
the hand is gathering.

Jeeb
Prok Kang : ( the side gathering) or it is upper
circle gathering. The form is as the same as the upper circle. But the hand
is gathering.

Jeeb
Lo Kaew : it
is
like gathering action post. Let the middle finger press on the first part
of thump. Bend the thump like the ring circle. The other fingers stretch
tightly. Bend the wrist to the arm.

4.
The body part

Shoulder
pressing :
This action should be done together with the head inclining. Press down
only the shoulder and not to let the hips incline.

Hitting
shoulder
: It refers to pressing of shoulder and then twist the pressing
shoulder to the back side.

Comforting
shoulder
: It is to press the shoulder and then twist the pressing shoulder to
the front.

Body
shrugging
: It is to let the front helix body lifting up and down. The shoulder
will be up and down along with it too. But the hips will be stillness
and doing lakgo ( inclining to the opposite side to the pressing shoulder).

5.
Knees and legs parts

Corner
: It is the knees form opening apart. Stepping , the actor has to set
apart the knees to be widen circle. While the actress has to step aside
and evading the knees not to be in circle.

Touching
feet
: It is the one of the feet action laying down to the front. The body
weight will be at the back foot. The end of nose foot will only be used
for the front foot with the slightly touching the ground ( the nose foot
is the part of the toes base.).

Pratao
: ( to mark the time on the same place) It is the action continuing from
the touching foot by lifting the foot nose up. Lay the ridge foot on the
floor. Bend the knees down together with touching the nose foot on the
floor and then lift it up.

Lifting
foot
: It is to lift the foot up to the front. Raise up the end of foot and
let it be tight. Bend the ankle to the leg. The actor will open the knee
to the side with the high in the standing knee level. The actress does
not open the knee with the high lower than the standing knee.

Stepping
:

Front
step
: It is to lay the sole down on the front floor by firstly laying down
the heel. The actor will do a little oblique step to the side. Let the
end of foot be oblique to the little toe. Open the knee to be in the proper
corner. The actress lays her foot to the front without opening the knee.
The end of foot is little oblique to the little toe.

Step
side
: It is to lay down the foot on the body side with the end of the foot
being oblique more to the little toe. If you are the actress you have
to evade the knee along with ramming foot. Lay foot at the back of the
foot nose and then use the nose foot rams down on the floor and then raise
up or lift it to the front.

Kradok Thao :
( Bending skew foot upward)

The foot tilting backward: Having rammed the foot and then
kick the knee to the back as much as possible separating the knee from
each other. Let the heel close to the buttocks as much as possible.
Bend the foot end down. Bend the knee down from standing. The actor
has to separate the knee too.

Skew
tilting
: It is like the tilting backward. But it inclines to the side way and
there is no need to ram the foot. It is always done continuously
from stepping aside or the tilting foot on the sitting post.